Healthcare IT News October 16, 2017
But experts at Monday’s National Committee for Quality Assurance event say cutting costs without compromising quality is the hardest part.
The $2.7 trillion that America spends on healthcare every year is overshadowing doctors’ ability to provide quality care to patients — but that dark cloud also shines a light on the opportunity, and the need, to better control spending.
“Cost is the number 1 threat to quality in the United States,” said Peggy O’Kane, founder and President of the National Committee for Quality Assurance. “It hurts the ability of doctors to do a good job. We have a lot of high deductibles that stand in the way of getting the kind of primary care and chronic disease management care that...
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